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Where our players go next

Four Talata players have moved up. Three went to Canada and the USA, and one went to a Danish 1. division club.

The Talata Academy in blue kit with their coaches

A young club

Talata started in 2021 and trains in five halls across Copenhagen, with holiday camps at Hafnia-Hallen. Parents ask whether a young club can take a kid as far as a big one.

Our job is to get a player ready for the level above, and then help them go. Sometimes that is a prep school in Ontario. Sometimes it is a Danish 1. division roster forty minutes down the motorway. Here is where they have gone.

Players

Orangeville Prep

Malthe Mikkelsen

Talata to Orangeville Prep, Canada

Malthe was a wing in the Talata Academy through 2024/25. At the start of 2025/26 he went to Fort Erie International Academy in Ontario, then moved to Orangeville Prep for the rest of the season. Orangeville is one of the top prep programs in North America and a regular feeder into NCAA Division 1.

  • Talata Academy, 2024/25
  • Fort Erie International Academy, Ontario, fall 2025
  • Orangeville Prep, Ontario, Canada, 2025/26
  • Committed at 15

Read Malthe's story

Martins Ferry High School

Johan Lyager Joensen

Talata to Martins Ferry High School, Ohio

Johan is one of the originals. He was on the floor in the first season, when Talata was twenty kids and one team, and he stayed while the club grew to four teams in the Danish league.

This year he plays for the Purple Riders at Martins Ferry High School in Ohio. American high school ball is the most common route into the NCAA, and Johan is taking it at fifteen after two years in this gym.

  • Talata since 2024, one of the founding group of twenty
  • Academy, U15 and U17
  • Joins the Purple Riders at Martins Ferry High School, Ohio, for 2026/27

Read Johan's story

The Patrick School

Valdemar Scharfe

Talata Men to The Patrick School program, New Jersey

Valdemar came to Talata in 2022. He trained at our camps and in the Academy, and he opened 2026/27 with Talata Men: 13 points against Hørsholm in the cup and 14 away at BK Amager.

This fall he trains with The Patrick School basketball program in New Jersey, one of the best known high school programs in the United States. Talata set the move up with him.

  • Talata since 2022
  • Talata Men, 3. Division, 2026/27
  • The Patrick School program, New Jersey, fall 2026

Read Valdemar's story

Team FOG Naestved

Marius Wriedt

Talata Men, 3. division, to Næstved, 1. division

Marius played for the Talata Men's side and has moved up two tiers of Danish senior basketball to Næstved in the 1. division.

A club with a men's roster gives a seventeen year old somewhere to train up into, and gives a twenty year old a competitive season without leaving Copenhagen. Marius used both.

  • Talata Men, 3. Division Herrer Øst
  • Now at Næstved, 1. division

Read Marius's story

Who we know

These are the coaches we call. The full network

What moves a player

Play up, early

Everyone on this page spent time in a gym where they were not the best player.

A senior team above you

The Men's side is the top of the ladder inside the club. A seventeen year old can train with them two nights a week, Monday and Friday.

Coaches who have been there

Our coaches played NCAA Division 1, the Basketligaen and pro ball in Canada, Lithuania and Denmark. They moved up themselves.

Meet the coaches

Start in the same gym

Every player on this page had a first session once. Your first session is free. Bring indoor shoes.

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Going abroad

Where the routes go, what it costs, what we do and what our partner agencies do.

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